Photo Quotes Archive

"Art without thought is incomplete. Art with thought is incomplete. Art making requires both thinking and non-thinking in order to become more than mere pretty pictures."

"...art making is a process, and lessons wait in every moment to be discovered. I'm still making art and still learning every day. And I have faith that that the most important lessons--as well as my most important works of art--are yet to be discovered."

"One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this - then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment. So I can make 'without thought,' fifteen carefully considered negatives, one every fifteen minutes, given material with as many possibilities. But there is all the eyes have seen in this life to influence me."

"... realize that creating artwork is a real-time thing, not a future thing. And that there's real virtue in finishing today's vision today because tomorrow your vision will probably be different."

"The minute I start trying to avoid the bad stuff, I'm also going to throw the baby out with the bath water. Because the good stuff will stop being produced too."